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Orbitals is Nintendo’s Most Unique Exclusive So Far This Year

One of Nintendo’s most interesting exclusives of the year is a precision orbital strike (heh) directly at the heart of elder millennials. Orbitals is a two-player co-op puzzle game with a retro anime artstyle that harkens to the days of watching Toonami’s Midnight Run. One of my fondest memories as a human is staying up…

New Dragon Quest Monsters Game Announced, Dragon Quest XI S Is Coming To Switch 2

The newly minted Dragon Quest XII: Beyond Dream may have dominated today’s Dragon Quest Day livestream, but there were two other Dragon Quest announcements. First is the reveal of a new Dragon Quest Monster game and the announcement that the most recent mainline game is coming to Switch 2. Today’s broadcast ended with a brief…

Marathon Goes Free-To-Play For Just One Week During Season 2

Marathon players have been begging Bungie to do some sort of free trial for the struggling extraction shooter and the studio is finally taking them up on it for the kick-off of season 2. The sci-fi game will go free-to-play for exactly one week so every Marathon sicko like myself can badger their friends into…

Widow’s Bay episodes 6 and 7 might be the best horror movie of the summer

If you’ve been watching Widow’s Bay for the past few weeks, you know what to expect at this point. In each episode of the horror-comedy show, Mayor Tom Loftis (Matthew Rhys) does his best to boost tourism to the eponymous island town. And each time, he’s foiled by some sort of supernatural force, whether that’s…

The Witcher 3 Is Getting Brand New DLC In 2027, CDPR Confirms

Over ten years since its original release, The Witcher 3 is receiving some brand new DLC. Much rumored of late, but often looking more like hopium than reality, CD Projekt Red has now confirmed that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Songs of the Past is a reality, and it’s coming out in 2027. Oh, and…

GOG’s Square Enix Sale Includes 11 Classic Final Fantasy, Mana, And SaGa Games

The ’90s are considered a golden era for Japanese console RPGs, much of thanks to the incredible releases from Squaresoft on PS1 and Super Nintendo. The time I spent with games like Final Fantasy VII, Secret of Mana, and Saga Frontier set the standard for the RPG genre at the time, and made a mark…

007 First Light Review – Cinematic Flair

James Bond has a long history in video games, but his quality missions are far fewer and farther between. I’m happy to report that 007 First Light can join the ranks of successful outings, offering a new and original take on the character that is both fresh and rooted in a deep understanding of the…

Uber Boss Seems Unsure About All Those Billions Spent On AI Slop

In a recent interview, Uber president and chief operating officer Andrew Macdonald seemed unsure that it made sense for the company to continue to spend billions of dollars on AI tools, such as Claude coding, as there doesn’t seem to be a “link” between the rising costs of the tech and actually getting anything useful…

15 years later, the Steam dev behind a failed Minecraft killer won’t give up

Before No Man’s Sky, there was Cube World. If you haven’t heard of it, that’s not surprising. The voxel exploration game began development back in 2011 and footage of its blocky paradise stole the internet’s collective heart back in 2013. Cube World receded back into obscurity after a controversial Steam alpha in 2019. As I…

007 First Light’s Training Montage Is One Of The Best Tutorials I’ve Ever Played

I don’t like video game tutorials. They’re important, don’t get me wrong – I’d rather be told how to play a game than stumble through a complex control scheme – but it always feels like a chore. It is remarkable, then, that I can’t stop thinking about a tutorial montage in the early moments of…